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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Yeh, Chiou-Ling
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| Publisher: |
University of California Press
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| Date: |
09/02/2008
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States-the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco-opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
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